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Ryusuke Hamaguchi

Japanese film director and screenwriter

6.76body-of-work score · ranked #155 of 2631 directors · 5 films in our library

A director's score is the sum of their films' composite canon scores — methodology.

Born
December 16, 1978 · Kawasaki
Nationality
Japan
Work
film director, screenwriter
Reference
Wikipedia · Wikidata
Portrait of Ryusuke Hamaguchi
Heiyinmatthewlo · CC BY-SA 4.0

Films in our library, ranked

Ranked by composite canon score across 20+ authoritative lists, awards and polls — our ordering, with every placement citing its evidence on the film's page.

  1. 1
    Drive My Carドライブ・マイ・カーMust-See #134

    2021 · Japan · drama

    Kinema Junpo Best Ten (Japanese) 2021 #1 · Japan Academy Prize winner 2022 · Film Comment year-end poll 2021 #2

    3.177 citations
  2. 2
    Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy偶然と想像

    2021 · Japan · drama

    Kinema Junpo Best Ten (Japanese) 2021 #3 · Cahiers du Cinéma annual top 10 2022 #5 · Film Comment year-end poll 2021 #7

    1.223 citations
  3. 3
    Evil Does Not Exist悪は存在しない

    2023 · Japan · drama

    Kinema Junpo Best Ten (Japanese) 2024 #3 · Film Comment year-end poll 2024 #6 · Cahiers du Cinéma annual top 10 2024 #7

    1.193 citations
  4. 4
    Asako I & II寝ても覚めても (映画)

    2018 · Japan / France · drama, romance

    Kinema Junpo Best Ten (Japanese) 2018 #4 · Film Comment year-end poll 2019 #16

    0.682 citations
  5. 5
    Happy Hourハッピーアワー

    2015 · Japan · drama

    Kinema Junpo Best Ten (Japanese) 2015 #3

    0.501 citation

Complete filmography

All 10 directorial credits recorded on Wikidata, in chronological order; films in our library link to their canon-score page.